Svitolina sensationally lost in the first match of Wimbledon

The first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina lost to little known opponent.

The first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina unpleasantly surprised, having lost already at the start of Wimbledon, German tennis player Tatjana Maria, occupying the 57th place in the world ranking, 6:7(3), 6:4, 1:6.

Seeded fifth in the tournament Ukrainka unsuccessfully started the match, losing her serve and allowing her opponent to come out ahead 2:0. Then Svitolina once again lost his serve and was inferior to 1:5. The seventh game of the Ukrainian won one, and then turned to physio and took a medical break due to calluses on the right foot.

After the game resumed Svitolina played four sambola, made two breaks and equalized. In the end, everything was decided on the tiebreak where Maria immediately took the lead 4:0 and brought the set to win.

In the second set Svitolina went ahead twice with a break, and Maria was twice compared to the score after the missed game. Elina the third time got the advantage in the party (4:3) and eventually managed to bring Seth to victory.

In deciding the Ukrainian missed two games on his serve and didn’t win a single breakpoint, losing set 1:6, and with it the match.

The last time Svitolina failed to pass the starting barrier in the majors in 2014 at the Open championship of the USA.

Earlier it was reported that at the start of Wimbledon, the victory of Lesia Tsurenko and Sergiy Stakhovsky, but Kateryna Bondarenko lost.

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